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Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Good stuff Bart, Rich, Jono, Jim. Picked up a used 300/4.5 SMC F ED IF...so I turned to the garden...AF spot on...very sharp...hope you saw the Glory Lily on the last page...here are some other examples.

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Just go away! We have windy grey weather, drizzle, 16C, horrible, and you post shots like this (what are the blow up people in the surf on the upper right incidentally?).

I'm not a great surfer, but I do like it, and that looks like about my level (bit windy though).

Right - off to bed - I don't want to see any more!

Jono

I am with you my man!

I already have cabin fever dealing as I am with the recuperation from my third back surgery in five weeks (everything went perfectly this time thank God!).

Colorado is supposed to have like 320 days of full sunshine each year and we have had exactly two sunny days in the month of May! Of course what that means is that we will transition from temperatures in the 60's F to the 90's in about two days and it will now be too hot and the light too contrasty!

Can't wait to get out and shoot with my relatively new K-5 kit. I want some decent light so I can post the results from my manual focus Zeiss ZK lenses for all to see.

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Hello everyone,new member here.Please allow me to introduce myself,I'm Malcolm.That done I'd like to say how much I have enjoyed following the Pentax threads here since discovering Get DPI. fantastic pictures and informative and entertainig comments/opinions from clearly very gifted photographers!
So I thought I'd lower the standard!
And besides,you are all partly responsible for my decision to stick with Pentax
Anywho!,it would be churlish not to post a pic with my first post,so heres a shot taken this morning.
Great spotted woodpecker about to feed his male chick.fifteen minute walk from home in not so sunny today Herefordshire.
Regards
Malc

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Paraphrasing an old Red Skelton joke:

Scene: wire that runs over the Henley Regatta:
Dove on the left: "What's going on down there, Ethel?"
Dove on the right (Ethel). "Oh, I just came back from taking a look. It's an Oxford vs Cambridge crew race".
Dove on the left: "Who do you think is going to win?"
Dove on the right: "I don't know, but I just put all I had on Oxford!"

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Originally Posted by Rich M

Lee....I love poppies.......is this a stitch?

R

Rich,

No, just a crop. I should really have ventured into the field to get some closer shots but I stayed on the outside of the gate, and anyway didn't want to start trampling on the crops in the foreground. Poppies don't hang around very long and these looked great as they were back lit by the sun, though I should have avoided the shadow in the background. I was pleased with the 18-135 getting these sharp at its 135 setting. I would have posted a larger in-line image but my getdpi gallery space is full ...

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Hi Malc
And a BIG welcome. Lovely shot.
We still have sunshine in the frozen east (suffolk Norfolk border) but the rain is coming for our panting lawn.
Just considering another dog walk. I do like bank holidays!

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Thanks Joe,Rich,Jono.
A friend bought a k5 satarday so I personally blame him for the rain seeing as how i bet he's chomping at the bit to get outsideI doubt he wants to get his new toy wet and put the weather sealing to the test on his first outing
Continuing Leonard Cohen and Roy's theme-
if "one swallow does'nt make a summer",do two?
Regards
Malc

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Working the garden with the 300/4.5: This is a set of spiny, thorny, prickly "botanicals" meant to show off how sharp this lens is...shot in early morning light...hand held at 1/800, ISO 400, most of the exposures around f/8.

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Roy
Fine Prickly pictures - I like the second one best, and I'm jealous of that lens!

Ashwin
I used to really enjoy smoking - love the first shot.
You americans seem to have some other definition of NAKED from us over here . . . not only does she have her pants on, she seems to be wearing a bra as well! (great shot though).
Interesting the first two wedding shots - were you the photographer? or were you shadowing the photographer? Looks Like Fun at anyrate

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Originally Posted by jonoslack

Having seen Malc's wonderful swallow shot I'm loathe to post these . . . . but I was going to, so here are this weekend's wildlife shots -
Here is a noble cat - she will keep getting into boxes, and these days she thinks that she is a little slimmer than reality: (60-250

Good to see she's still as cool as ever. There's been too many dog pictures of late

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Thanks to Bart, Lee, Jono, Roy, and Rich.

Jono, I do think that the sensibilities of the middle of the U.S. maybe different with regards to clothing...LOL....whereas in Seattle, LA, and other big cities, the mantra of "Less is More" is in place, in Cincinnati, the fact that the naked cowgirl was quite clothed suggests that in these ares, "More is less", more or less..

Roy, I believe I was shooting the weddings at iso 800-1600 primarily, and adding grain in post-processing...

Hi Rich, this bridesmaid was somehone whose wedding I didn't attend (she was apparently at the same hotel at which I stayed). I think she was getting wedding formal shots taken at the hotel...seemed a bit bored. THe wedding that I actually attended was far more fun

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Originally Posted by jonoslack

Here is a noble cat - she will keep getting into boxes, and these days she thinks that she is a little slimmer than reality: (60-250

Jono, of the series seen here, this is my favorite, though the gold finch and jumping deer take 2nd and 3rd prizes here. Funny how much you are able to find close to home ! The shadow detail in this image is commendable. Did you do any pull/push processing to bring out the shadow details?

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Originally Posted by benroy

Good stuff Bart, Rich, Jono, Jim. Picked up a used 300/4.5 SMC F ED IF...so I turned to the garden...AF spot on...very sharp...hope you saw the Glory Lily on the last page...here are some other examples.

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Thanks Jono,but its just a snap compared to all the shots I see on here from everyone! Inspirational stuff!
No I'm sorry about exif details I think,as I said in another post its because the forum software is resizing pics for me.either that or the munchkins that live in my laptop are stealing them k5 and new bigma.
Cheers
Malcolm

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Hi Ashwin - no push-pull, just the damn cat!

Malc - your bigma shots are wonderful - more please!

I came home from work tonight, and it was really raining hard, a few updates, the dog hassling, so I put on some shorts and a t-shirt, grabbed the K5 with the 18-135 and ran (walked fast) for it. We were both wet in a minute or so, but the sun did come out. . . There'll be more later, but there's something very therapeutic about an hours walk in rain/sun, with a camera you don't have to think about. Of course one could get togged up in wellies and jackets etc. but somehow it isn't the same. The cold keeps you going along

anyway - one shot I liked (even if it is a bit cheesy) there's more to come (oh yes!):

Re: Fun with the Pentax K5

Around the neighborhood with the 300: 1st pic: Neighbor lady training her lead sled dog for next year's Iditerod.
2nd pic: Cattle egret...No where near the quality of image Bart and Malc are producing...but very sharp.
3rd pic: Toys hanging outside drug-store.
4th pic: Blue bike on a bus...marvelous detail on 3 levels....the bike, the printed material on the bus, and a passenger and driver behind the windshield.
Very happy with this lens!